Squiffy was rather pleased when I intercepted a couple of queue-jumpers at the Colosseum in Rome. In my best projected theatre-voice, I asked them whether they were comfortable jumping ahead of all of the other good people who were waiting patiently in that queue. With the unwanted attention of all eyes around them, the queue-jumpers […]

It wasn’t built in a day and it shall not be blogged in a day, either. Rome is the biggest city to which we’ve travelled, thus far. The closest campsite is big too. We were sharing the site with a few other campers and seventeen hundred blonde, German girls who were enjoying the most enormous […]

We went into an Italian Cybercafe to use the Internet today. Here’s their price list: 15 minutes 1.50 Euro 30 minutes 2.50 Euro 1 hour 3 Euro 2 hours 5 Euro and so forth…   We used the connection for 1 hour and 20 minutes. I approached the counter to pay. “You’ve been one and […]